抄録
the theory of modernization, as developed by the American and British social scientists in the 1950's and mid-1960's identifies the U.S., England and other Western European countries as endogenous developers, the model devisers, whereas latecomers like Japan, China and other non-Western countries as exogenous developers, the model borrowers. To this concept, I would like to challenge, by proposing that all the latecomers also are more or less endogenous developers. First, I characterize the general features of the theory of endogenous development, distinct from the theory of modernization. Then I concentrate on two of those features, first, the recreativity of tradition in terms of social and intellectual structures ; and the second, the agents of change in the direction of endogenous development, whom I call "key-persons". Illustrations will be made with reference to Minamata in Japan and agrarian industrization in southern Jiangsu in China. In conclusion, I shall try to consider some relevance of the proto-theory to endogenous development to the system theory.
